If you travel on the London tube you will see charity ads inside the carriages. Often they say £3 could do this or that. It’s part of the fundraisers obsession with hooking donations to activities or items (it’s the way we were taught to). Of course those of us in the know realise that £3…

I’m excited about stickiness at the moment. I think it will be important if you believe in holistic fundraising – where different parts of your fundraising programme connect. Let me give you some examples. A weekend stall at a summer festival led to one of SolarAid’s largest ever trust donations. How? A former volunteer came by…

I am a great fan of Douglas Adams. Better known for writing the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, my favourite series of books were about Dirk Gently and his detective agency. Dirk was a ‘holistic detective’ who believed in the interconnectedness of things. In the novels things just happened but all along there was a…